The change from her own home to a school, and from her own very noiseless, very secluded, but unrestricted and unartificial mode of life, to one of disciplined routine (though under the kindest auspices), was what she failed in enduring. Liberty was the breath of Emily’s nostrils without it she perished. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights and not the least and best-loved was-liberty. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her out of a sullen hollow in a livid hill-side, her mind could make an Eden. Anne, like her eldest sister, was shy Emily was reserved.” An avowed homebodyĬharlotte herself offered this explanation of why Emily couldn’t survive at school, away from home: I distinguish reserve from shyness, because I imagine shyness would please, if it knew how whereas, reserve is indifferent whether it pleases or not.
“… a tall, long-armed girl, more fully grown than her elder sister extremely reserved in manner. In Elizabeth Gaskell‘s The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Emily is described as: Like her siblings, she read extensively, but had only an intermittent formal education, always cut short by economic uncertainty and family deaths.Įmily was by far the most introverted of the Brontës it pained her to be away from home for any length of time. Emily was the ringleader in the creation of Gondal, an imaginary world that included at four kingdoms. The Brontë children all had vivid imaginations and together told stories and acted out tales. A rather dark study of desire and obsession, it also touches upon economic, social, and psychological issues and is often cited as the ideal “romantic novel.” An imaginative introvert Wuthering Heightsremains an enduring classic. Though she only lived to age thirty, Emily produced one of the most iconic novels of passion and tragedy in the English language. The two oldest sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, both died before adolescence. Their mother died while the children were still young. The family moved to the quiet Haworth setting where the sisters grew up, along with their brother Branwell. The fifth child born to Maria Branwell Brontë and Reverend Patrick Brontë, Emily Jane was, like her sisters, born in the West Yorkshire village of Thornton in England. She has also been recognized as a brilliant poet. Emily Brontë (J– December 19, 1848), British author known for Wuthering Heights, was the sister of Charlotteand Anne Brontë.
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